The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-22
HI MODERN STEth'
Important Points submitted to tho oV"-
alteration of Stockholders

We are not required to look far fol
the evidences-they are apparent every
year-that the doctrine of crossing the
breeds of cattle, the purpose being 70
prepare something for exhibition n
for the block, is being acted upon more
and more each wear. This has grown
in part, out of the fact that while
breeders have been able to secure a
| very excellent class of steers by breed
ing from frst-class sires and one-half
or three-fourths bred dams, still these
cattle do not meet the requirements OF
the modern show-rin-. especially NJ
those fairs and shows where the higher
tests are required.
The grade steer, as he has heretofore
been bred and accepted in market as a
very marked improvement over the old
fashioned beast, whose sire was a scrub,
cuts a sorry figure in these days beside
the steer Of high breeding. Even the
men who have made almost a world
wide reputation in growing grade cat
tie, shipping each year carloads OF
cattle that rank quite high in m arket,
are forced to stand aside and see him
give way to the steer of higher breed
ing, because, as heretofore bred. he
does not get the s%traightness OF lines
nor the general style and finish that
modern exactions require. The stand
ard as to finish, straightness Of lines
and levelness of top, with least possible
offal. is so high that size, at a given
oge, does not cut the figure it formerly
did in securing IN award.
1t is more and more apparent every
day that the improved breeds are made
breeds, and the happy art Of combining
forces through the use Of another breed,
is proving to be the most efectual way
Of securing the golden egg. There
seems to be a renewal, or at least a
refrigeration of the digestive and as
similative forces secured by these bold
crosses, not obtainable in any other
way. A new lease of life, as it were, is
secured, and if one of the animals used
in making the cross referred to is I'M
sound, the other having no defect, the
u~nsoundness, especially if it be latent,
or in part so, may be overcome, and
disappear in the progeny. s
At any rate. an animal quite superior
to either parent is quite likely to be Sc
cured, as many trials of the kind have
proven. As is well understood, the
opinions of breeders and butchers are
many times wide apart. Points
of excellence seen by the one set of men
are esteemed lightly, or not at all, by
the other, Yet the main points are
seen and estimated alike by both, name
ly, the light waste at the neck. the
presence of thick roasts, we'll forward
into the shoulder, the presence of wide,
thick, ~porterhouse roasts and steaks,
and the wide hin and rump, with all the
space between well filled. These and
other important matters are
agreed upon, while there
are questions about handling,
touch. that have less Of
a clearly understood meaning to them,
and, as results often show, are of less
Importance than the other and moro
evidence referred to. To illus
trate, the butcher ties the blue ribbon
to a steer, because from his point of
which is supposed to be based
upon the quality, and hence
he salableness of the animals meat
when cut up, he is the best, and will die
the best. However, it has often been
proven that to err is human, even in the
case Of an expert butcher, because the
consumer, the person who has the meat
70 eat, when it comes to his turn to pass
Judgment, may say-and sometimes has
said: 81 do not want meat from the
butchers best steer
So we deduce from this that butchers,
breeders, and all, have something to
earn IN the important matter of which
IS the best steer to eat. There can not
much disagreement about the model.
lime and added experience will never
be able to show that there is a better
way to make a show steer, a butchers
steer or q steer that amateurs and ex-
perts alike will say is a good one, than
the simple, sensible, because
physiological, process of cross
.ng two well-bred and highly-finished
animals taken from two distinct
breeds or two distinct families. 1t
S necessary nov in breeding and
steers to feed the human taste
or the beautiful, and the human ap-
'etite to appcase hunger, allaying the
hunger with something that tickles the
palate and to follow the plan adopted
n every other lfne Of business-namelv,
when men come up to the old land
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